Three Sample Missions, Submitted Last Week

1. A Creative Mission

The Ab Roller. The Thigh Master. The Shake Weight. We've all seen those gadgets they sell on late night TV, the ones that promise to help you lose those last fifteen pounds, the ones that look like nothing more than a repurposed bouncy-ball. And you know what? They make their inventors millionaires. Now it's your chance. Use your creative eye to find something close at hand and make your own exercise infomercial. You can use anything you want: a stop sign, a tree branch, your teammates' boot. Film your own short ad, enter the video number, and text once you've figured out how to slim America for $19.95, plus shipping and handling.

2. Sneak & Snoop

Union square wasn’t always just a posh shopping district. Originally named for pro-Union Civil War rallies, the one block urban park between Post and Geary has also been the site of mass protests, the first underground parking garage ever built, and a tall, slender statue commemorating a particular Naval Admiral. In fact, head to that statue now. See the date it was dedicated? (Sorry, you’ll have to remember your Roman Numerals!) Can you name historical San Francisco event happened only three years later?

A. The Opening of the Golden Gate Bridge
B. The Great San Francisco Earthquake
C. The Summer of Love
D. Alcatraz opens

(Answer: B---statue was dedicated in 1903)

3. An Actor Plant Mission

ROLE: Tortured Poet---Teams will hear him recite a hilariously depressing poem and be asked to cheer him up by spontaneously reciting one of their own.

Deep down, we're all tortured artists; some of us just hide it better. If you make your way to the coffee shop on the corner of Haight and Cole, you'll find a poet who can't hide it at all. He'll be the one in all black. Approach him and ask to hear his latest masterpiece. But be courteous. He gets a little emotional and you may have to cheer him up afterwards.

(At this point, the actor would read a poem he created. The prompt would ask him to make it sad in an over-the-top, high school poetry sort of way. Ok: now the fun part. The actor gets bummed out and wistful and asks the team to compose a limerick, spontaneously, and recite it to cheer him up. The team would be asked to select one person to start the limerick, with four subsequent team members picking up one line each. The actor would be given a few sample limericks in case the team doesn't quite know how they sound. And, since I believe The Go Game has challenges where the actor grades the teams on how enthusiastic, funny, or clever they are, I'd use that schema here. He'd give them a score, one through six, and they'd then be prompted with their next mission.)